Growth Hacker at a Startup Investment Studio
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: FP
Salary range: 35000-55000
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity
Function: Marketing

Company profile:
Based in Hoxton, London, Forward Partners are a “startup catalyst”, combining investment with practical hands-on expertise and insight.We're investors in very early stage ecommerce companies.  Our team have the experience to enable entrepreneurs to succeed.  We do more than advise and mentor. We help the best entrepreneurs quickly find a great product-market fit with our expertise in customer discovery, coding, design, customer acquisition, testing and analysis as well as offering office space.Companies invested in include: Hailo, Zopa, Wool and the Gang, Thread, Big Health, Stylect, Makers Academy, Blik Book, DriftRock, Top10, SnapTrip, Loyalty Bay and Appear Here

Job description:
Forward Partners is an Investment Studio combining funding with practical hands-on expertise and insight.  We have an in-house team working with our seed-funded startups to help them turn their ideas into world class e-commerce businesses.  We do more than advise and mentor, we roll our sleeves up and get involved. Our support spans development, coding, design, customer acquisition, recruitment and fundraising, we even offer co-working space to our companies.Companies we’ve helped include: Hailo, Zopa, Wool and the Gang, Thread, Big Health, Stylect, Makers Academy, Blik Book, DriftRock, Top10, SnapTrip, #URL_5e07a935c285960c1778838c4eb735aedb124df9b86a50949ced9254889f8446# and Appear Here.The role of the Growth Hacker is massively important for our startups.  They need your expertise to gain traction through the first 100 customers, building well tested features and refining their product as they go.  Turning that initial interest into sales and those customers into fans. Ideally you'll already have had this experience in your previous position and love the highs that a 2% increase can give you!What we want you to do:Help the startups in our office grow -  Aid all of them in the acquisition and retention of usersLove all the data! - You'll get a warm glow from looking at dashboards and share expert insightsIncrementally improve - Tweak, twist and fine tune to maximise every opportunity!Create and manage multiple campaigns - Utilise all the tools you can to enhance our startup's growth.Pay it forward - As they grow our fledgling brands will get their own marketers, you'll pass on the user base and share your skillsOffer Insights - As much as you love the numbers you'll also be able to tell our Founders how they translate to the real decisions of their users.Be a part of the Forward Partners team - work closely with us, learn alongside us and join us for the Zorb Football or that awful Hot Wings Challenge we did that time.... 

Requirements:
You'll love the startup world and have had positions in growth or digital marketing.It would be even better if you were successful in these other positions, better still you'll be able to tell us why.We take a lean approach and work incrementally, if you've worked in this way and can work to a plan whilst remaining flexible that would be great! You'll have implemented and managed your own campaigns (cohort/customer segmentation, LTV, CPA, ROI).Be both a Scientist and an Artist - combine the love of data with your own flashes of brilliance which will take our companies further, faster.You're a geek! It's ok we are too! -  You'll be familiar with all the regular tools (GA, GTM, Mixpanel), and even know a few that we've never heard of, you might even surprise us with some coding skills.You'll know your PPC from your SEO and not be all OMG when we ask about ROI on the CPC. You'll be more than familiar with all things social (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) and know when each works best.You'll be curious and always wondering why? Venturesome in getting to those answers and happy in sharing the knowledge of your own insights.

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